Clinical Archives is back with a vengeance, but their silly blurbs are back as well:

The newest aural investigation by IMPULSANTWORT + PHARMAKUSTIK from Germany contains seven powerful circles of abandoned ambiences full of contradictory particles within the microorganic complexity. The involvement of granularly shredded machine-propulsions combined with thermonuclear freezing and the final analogue screams from the subterranean draught makes ANTINOMIE an outstanding result of thesis and antithesis. Plasmatic ambiences created from the pool of infinite randomness. “The source of the new is the random.”

In other words: “You should listen to this LP more than you should listen to other LPs.” Why didn’t they just come out and say that instead of blathering on about “thesis and antithesis?” Good question.

The bands’ Myspace pages are here and here respectively. The music is dark ambient, but very dark. Somewhere in the neighborhood of Pitch Black. The opening track “gra_n2″ is unbelievable. Go listen instead of surfing along to those other indie music sites that are waiting to file a dispatch on something that Vampire Weekend might be about to do.

Indeed, let’s. I remember coming back from 10 days off work to a new department. Mind you this was early summer, in Dallas. The air conditioning didn’t work. The toilet kept clogging up. The phone kept shorting out. We couldn’t connect to the server. My assistant manager was about to quit and try to take my top producer with him. Another producer quit and took one of the trainees with him. The company had paid a finder’s fee for the trainee; that had been about four months prior. He gave me three day’s notice. If I remember I told them both to bugger off.

I had a case of the shingles, and the neuralgia — that’s the pain-without-relief part — would last 160 days. Like the one about which Off Land’s Tim Dwyer writes, my commute was an hour each way. I would wake up at dark-fifteen to avoid traffic, but would often work until rush hour. Our salesman — and mind you this was our only salesman — had somehow nominated me his handler, and we argued three to four hours a day about nothing new, over and over and over and over.

We also had a new baby daughter, born April 5: 4/5/6. The date is impossible to forget, and believe me, this girl is impossible to forget. Our own little Athena, goddess of wisdom, as if she had leapt from the head of Zeus: tiny, but otherwise a woman. Our son was 17 months old, but stepped at once into the role of big brother. I remember collapsing onto the hallway floor sobbing with relief and exhaustion. Warts and all, I absolutely love to go back to 2006.

So take it away, Mr. Dwyer:

I used to hate my job, the dead-end brainless work.
Even more, I used to hate my commute.
An hour by subway what would take 20 minutes by car if I had owned one.
Everyday I walked to the subway, switching lines in town and took a 2nd line to the end.
I dreamed that one day the subway would take me past the last stop, just keep going.
Or maybe I would end up somewhere else, somewhere new.
Music was my salvation, my soundtrack, those two hours each day.
With or without music the commute was a score I listened to countless times.
On two occasions, for posterity, I recorded the commute.
Now it’s 2009 and my life has changed so much.
I look back into the dust of times and accompany a soundtrack to those days of travel.
This was my commute.

The EP is called Commute, and you can stream or download here. It’s ambient and experimental, but don’t let that scare you off. It’s the good kind of ambient and experimental.

We haven’t much in life, yet we have so much. It is strange how important the small things become. Letters to Kansas City is an ode to H Stewart’s hometown. The songs are written about Kansas City’s neighborhoods, their moods and memories according to H Stewart. The songs were made with a cheap Casio, a used microphone, and a laptop which houses odd programs for sound manipulations. Those things coupled with the memory of home H Stewart create a voiceless album drawing on how little and how much we have in life, and how important it is to be home.

That’s how Clinical Archives introduces Letters to Kansas City, by H Stewart. Music is not that different from photography. It isn’t the equipment that takes the picture, it’s you. You either have the eye or you don’t. Photographs taken from cameras built out of inexpensive, everyday objects can be staggeringly beautiful. They can also be awful. It all depends on the user.

In quite the same way a musical instrument does not need to be expensive, high tech, or expertly tuned. It only needs to be expertly played. This is why I think an LP of strictly Casio compositions is an important project. So while I’m not 100% sold on the results, I’ve listened to every note and think you ought to as well.

That’s the way Clinical Archives introduces Transfer to Unknown by Maria Grigoryeva. Their tear sheet says she’s 22, but she looks crazy young on her Myspace pictures. Here’s a taste:

Beautiful. Go hear the EP now and forget the whole Fred+4 Sloan recommendation that I briefly posted the other night.

Just listen. I know I only get one “Just listen” per year, and no, I’m not sure I want to expend it on Le Voyage by Pigeons and Crazy Porridgemakers, but I need a bit more time to process. And I’m buying myself that processing time by saying “Just listen.” It’s not like I’m a Pentium or anything. Be merciful. I’ll write more, maybe I’ll even review the thing when I know what we’re dealing with, here. Maybe. No promises. You know? I probably won’t. I mean, just look at the freaking album cover.

anyone who has downloaded a bunch of files from the wayback machine knows, sometimes a zip file will not bt 100% downloaded. or if it does, then it is corrupted. luckily its a known bug and there is a simple solution!

http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=9151

Today we unearth Summons of Shining Ruins by Shinobu Nemoto (AKA Josef K, AKA Dark Side of the Audio System). These are deceptively simple melodies under curious feedback, accessible drone work. Some listeners may get too frustrated waiting for drums and vocals. I can’t wait to get this stuff moved to my car so I can play it loud and late.

It’s Picnic by Dadala. “Night of the Squid” is a messy and ominous crescendo, and it has the scent of an oncoming storm. The title track is organic and relaxed.

Fire in the Sun…

…Evangelista…

…Darlings’ Cabinet of Sundry Horror…

…and now, guitarrorism.

Ko. Ag. Es. Am. Od. Run it all together (“koagesamod”), then Google it. (Or not. Either way she’ll come back with this. Or run it backwards and you get this. Or maybe it’s an anagram? dome saga, ok? ska mode ago? ak go same od?)

What? You want to hear about the music? It’s Zima by Breakawaygrain. It’s nostalgic and ambitious and electronic. Some of it is deliciously tarnished. Some of it needs to be heard in a nightclub. You’ll like it. This archive is not at all clinical.

It’s Barriers by pandora’s.box (here’s the propaganda: home page, Myspace page, last.fm page, Facebook page). As I told Patrick, it inhabits that indie-alterno-prog quadrant where you can never go wrong. I can’t say I love the name of the band. What I can say is that I love the track “Next to Mine,” which launches us into space and pauses to let us appreciate the view.  The copy mentions Trail of Dead, Radiohead; I hear Pink Floyd, maybe a spoonful of Sigur.  Go give them a whirl.

Start your search here though. It’s Crust by Sinter. And don’t call it an EP. If you do, the band is likely to release the marmosets. It’s a “mini album.”

These are some dark but tasty waters. Fuzzy synths, some nice use of silence, ghost-town accessories. Nothing too laptoppy. Listen to it all the way through and then go do something at least partially goth, like painting the dog. Children under 18 need their parents’ permission, which by the way they won’t get.

A live one from archive.org, Mr. DeVo! Work In Progress features over a dozen tracks produced by this young upstart.  “Confusion” by Aldi Sokken is a happy mess, your favorite bad dream, a World Tour in itself through Havanna, Tangier, Rio de Janiero and the Silicone Valley. “VIM” by Breuk is moody and atmospheric and easily supports its eight-minute length. “Hypno cow” by Pika Holzschuh is much better than the title suggests; my favorite liner note by far is “Pika Holzschuh is working on Two dogs and a girl.”

Check it all out here.

Does it ever feel to you like civilization is unraveling? You’ve got radical Jihad. You’ve got climate issues. You’ve got war. You’ve got global recession. You’ve got swine flu. Either that or you’ve got a global news alliance making a mint out of making the news. It’s either one or the other.

If you’re like me — and let’s face it, you’re still reading — this would either put you in that kind of a mood, or keep you there, whichever of the two you require. And although I’m a bit rusty on algorithm lectures, the name provides a halfway decent teaser: minimalist compositions, chaotic guitar work, goatee-scratching angularity and dissonance. You know? My kind of stuff.

As is becoming common with archive.org material, I’m not quite sure about the blurb.

Find Mr. Sanchez online here and here.

Our next archive.org release is in, but I simply cannot stand the blurb:

A collection of aural environments and scored emotions. It is an interplay of drones, sparse harmonies, soundtracks for half-sleep, feelings of awe and states in between. Mental Health Consumer recorded and mixed many of the tracks live, allowing a fuller immersion in the meditative immediacy of how one hears and responds to music.

Meditative immersion? Sure. We’ll get right on that.

The music is certainly better than the copy. I’ll go so far as to agree with the “drones” and the “sparse” comments. Check it out if the other archive.org releases have agreed with you (refresh your memory here and here). If not, another New Music Tuesday is right around the corner.

UPDATE: The links to archive.org and to the release would certainly help.

Listen to it here.

Recycles is a much warmer, much more accessible, and frankly a much louder archive.org release than “Twenty Feet for Buddha,” which we reviewed previously. I especially like the opening track “ghost grinder,” which deftly stirs brass, guitar and voice in with the more standard low-cost blend of drum machine and sampling. The saxophone is absolutely haunting. “reprise” is similarly moving.

Try also their Myspace page here

Yesterday we linked to a list of collections of free music downloads, and free listening-on-demand. The first link on that list is archive.org, a truly massive collection of 28,000+ downloads released on netlabels.

It’s not just too big of a collection to finish. It’s really too big to start. Try instead their RSS feed.

Which I did, and the first release to climb into my inbox is “Twenty Feet for Buddha” by Terje Paulsen (Myspace page here). Description follows [original text left intact]:

terje paulsen is a sound-artist from Kristiansand, Norway, working with simple instruments and equipment, sometimes self made, sounds from found objects and fieldrecordings from his local enviroment. He likes the sounds to be hand made and does not use a laptop.

“twenty feet for buddha” is a contemplative, subtle piece with a duration of about twenty minutes. terje made this track with some treated fieldrecordings and buddha-machines. It starts very quiet with some light drones, spotted higher tones and background-noise. From this point little melody-fragments were added, bearing the listener away.

A really dreamy, gentle work. Please listen to it with headphones.

Check it out here.

The folks at tMiM have not vetted this list.

A picture of how the Academy Award losers really feel!

Following up on my previous post, and after yet another disappointing Academy Award season, I’m going to give you an award that IS worth your time.

THE HEROIC TIMES 1st Annual Welles Awards!

Nifty title huh. I wanted to create an award show for this new generation of audio shows, podcasts and streaming radio. And while I toyed with a few people to name it after who had extraordinary voices, the great Paul Robeson, Paul Frees… I settled on naming it Welles after Orson Welles. Listening to Welles’ SHADOW episodes pretty much single-handedly got me hooked on audio dramas and Old Time Radio, and thereby New Time Audio Dramas and Podcasts.

So without further ado, let’s give out…. THE WELLES AWARDS!

1st Category is Top Ten Podcasts of 2008, I won’t bore you with the hundreds of nominees I went through to compile this list (and this section is strictly for podcasts that are hosted, and or referential/review based in nature, be that movies, music, books, whatever. If you have a podcast, but it’s basically just an audio drama, it will be in the audio drama category. There’s some bleed over but that’s basically the division). So let’s get to the ones who made the Podcast list, these are in no particular order, but suffice to say if you see them below the shows were the best most entertaining podcasts I came across in 2008 (notice that “I” if you don’t see your podcast, it doesn’t mean I don’t love you, maybe I just didn’t come across you in 2008— how’s that for being a politician ). The best of the best ( And keep an eye out for next installment Top Ten Audio Dramas of 2008, and yes, you’ll find THE RED PANDA there):

1. COMICBOOK GEEK SPEAK- This US, Pennsylvania based show with nearly 600 episodes is one of the oldest, one of the longest lasting, and one of the most popular podcast shows and for good reason. For current fans of comics, lapsed fans, and curious newcomers this show is like hanging out with good acquaintances and is just a great way to stay in the loop on a hobby that needs all the inroads it can get. And again this show admirably illustrates the ability of the passionate amateur to be more in touch with the medium then the so-called professionals. In an age when the major comic companies are losing readers in droves due to bad will and poor public relations skills (particularly at a time when they should be taking advantage of the current Hollywood spotlight), this podcast has probably done more to introduce new and lapsed readers back to comics than all the corporate ’suits’ and gimmicks and stunts combined.

2. FREQUENCY OF FEAR- I’m cheating a little with this one as I became aware of this Arizona, US based variety horror/anthology/comic/music show in 2009. But I’ve listened to its 2008 episodes and they are great. It is really tailored to fans of old time radio and those old horror records, but if that’s you, you’ll love this show.- http://frequencyoffear.com

3. GEEK SYNDICATE- I became aware of these guys at the end of 2007, and have been a fan ever since. A two-man British podcast covering all things pop-culture, David and the Nuge providing one of the most enjoyable and informative shows of 2008. Their Buzz Aldrin episode being the funniest podcast of 08. http://www.geeksyndicate.co.uk/

4. MONDO MOVIE- With 86 episodes and counting this 2 man British podcast covering all things of genre, cult, horror cinema is eagerly awaited every week or so. Shows are top notch entertaining, and informative too. – http://www.mondomovie.com/

5. HORROR ETC- http://www.horroretc.com/index.html- The Canadians toss their hat in the ring, with this always entertaining two man podcast, covering horror films from classics to current hits.

6. COMIC BOOK OUTSIDERS- A brother podcast to GEEK SYNDICATE, this 2-man Brit show (do you see a trend here) is right up there with GS, but concentrates on under the radar, and Independent comics. Definitely Recommended- http://comicbookoutsiders.libsyn.com/

7. B-MOVIE CAST- True to its title, this podcast covers classic B-movies, with a leaning toward horror, scifi, cult flicks. Well produced, it includes news, DVD releases, and the main course which is usually a pretty thorough interview of one or two B movies. Recommended! – http://bmoviecast.com/

8. ISR- Indie Spinner Rack had a strong 08 with great Ted McKeever, Jeff Smith, Jeff Lemire interviews and great Indie Comic Reviews. (And peek back in 2007 for their Steve Bissette and Alan Moore Interviews. Two of the best interviews you’ll come across.)

9. THE LOST PICTURE SHOW- This Two-Man Brit Podcast (Nooooooo! Not another one! ) each episode explores a, if not lost, definitely under the radar film. But unlike other podcasts the films selected belong to no specific genre. They go from comedy to classics to cult. -http://thelostpictureshow.com/

And last but definitely not least

10. This slot is a tie between CRANKCAST and COMIC BOOK SAVANT , both shows that are very off the cuff, and can range far afield of comics but in very engaging and in very different ways. SAVANT particularly, as a one man show I find it to be… in places almost a meditation on life, and the living of it. I think all of us hope, that we can meet our… time in Gethsemane with grace. And here is one man who consistently amazes me with his ability to do that. You can find these podcasts at http://crankcast.net/ and http://www.comicbooksavant.com/cbs/index.cfm respectively.

Well that’s it folks, the HEROIC TIMES WELLES AWARD Podcast winners for 2008!! Jolly Good Show (that’s my brit speak. Yeah I’ll keep working on it)! And here’s wishing all those podcasts a great 2009! And if you haven’t already received your really hokey award just keep bugging me till you get it. Next installment, best Audio dramas of 2009!

Honorable mentions:

WATCHING THE DIRECTORS- A wife and husband duo each show tackle a different legendary director. A great show, that unfortunately came to an end in 2008, however you can for now still sample their old shows online here… http://watchingthedirectors.com/

BATTLESHIP PRETENSION- Well produced show, with two friends giving their views on films and filmmakers. The reviews are hit and miss with me, but the shows are well produced. http://www.battleshippretension.com/homepage.php

RADIO FREETOWN- A streaming audio show, that covers classic African music of the 70s. It’s a must listen. Unfortunately went on hiatus in February, but old shows for now are still up. http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/RF

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Já pensou em ver como eram sites como o da Apple e da Microsoft a alguns anos atrás? Pois é, isto é possível por meio do site http://www.archive.org, que faz um registro de vários sites na internet, mantendo um histórico de versões desses, sites durante o passar dos anos.

Veja esse vídeo no olhar digital sobre a estrutura física montada para armazenamento dessas páginas.

Scouting through Archive.org I came across some interesting works. One was of a “Vikings Lego War.”
The artist had actually created and animated film using lego and manipulated it to achieve actors.

The film got me thinking about all the unusual and creative things people come up with, just by reverting to unseen or
unimaginable methods of production. It is important to consider how to go beyond your frame and create something
far more technical and therefore interesting.

The same applies to the old playdough cartoons that no doubt most of us watched when we were young.

Oh the possibilities!!

Every day, our top 666 songs of alltime countdown gets one step closer to #1. Saturday’s song is #501:

Steve Wynn & Australian Blonde – King of Riverside Park

From the Momento cd, the great noir rocker’s 2001 collaboration with this Spanish rock band, one of the first albums to be recorded collaboratively on separate continents over email. This is its high point, a gorgeously Byrdsy individualist’s anthem told from the point of view of a bum in the park who triumphantly stands outside it all. “This is my life, ain’t nothing gonna bring me down, I’m the King of Riverside Park.” Strangely, nothing up in the Steve Wynn section at archive.org (297 live shows and counting!), although it’s on a live at Lakeside bootleg from 02 or so.  

Today is Pi Day. To celebrate this momentous occasion, I’d like to share the pi image that I created above.

The ascii art image is composed of the first 333 digits of π. I used the following to count the digits for me…
http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/charcount.shtml

Like everything I create, the ascii pi has been set free from any copyrights by using the CC0 waiver. Feel free to use it however you please.

Here are various formats of the ascii pi that you can download from archive.org…
- ascii
- svg
- png

Here’s a way to recreate the ascii pi…

1. Get an image of pi from wikipedia…
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pi-symbol.svg
2. Use GIMP to convert the svg into a flattened png
3. Use the png with this ascii art generator….
   http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/
4. Copy and paste the result into a text editor
5. Replace the characters from the generator with the first 333 digits of pi…
   http://www.eveandersson.com/pi/digits/

You should now have an ascii pi image created from the first 333 digits of pi. You can copy and paste that into Inkscape to make a svg or png version.

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- Set Free

I’ve been listening to ADVENTURES BY MORSE today.

It is an oft cited series from the golden age of radio, that took me a while to finally sample. But I have to say, it earns its praise.

ADVENTURES BY MORSE, was the brain child of writer/director/producer Carlton E. Morse and a followup to his earlier and much lauded I LOVE A MYSTERY serial. ADVENTURES BY MORSE being a fun, exciting, thrill a minute serial, that regales the listener with the adventures of Capt. Bart Friday, a private investigator who travels the globe, unraveling the world’s greatest mysteries.

The series has been defined as a high adventure serial, and you would be hard pressed to disagree with that. This was written between 1944 and 1945, and is not just more exciting and worldly and informative and erudite, than most anything produced today (movies, tv, etc) it’s also far less formulaic. It has all the trappings of the formulaic, but Carlton E. Morse’s writing and situations and share inventiveness, sets these shows apart.

And thankfully all 52 episodes (as well as 2 audition episodes) are still around to wow, and impress, and entertain… a new generation.

You can pick these up a couple of places online, but be aware some of the episodes on Archive.Org are missing parts of the cliffhanger endings. Most notably in THE COBRA KING STRIKES storyline.

Thankfully Radio Lovers.com has complete episodes. Now onto reviews of the first 3 storylines:

THE CITY OF THE DEAD- The first 10 part serial is THE CITY OF THE DEAD, and introduces us to a great cast of characters, and a deep intriguing mystery, of a bell that rings where no bell is, a shrieking thing, a weeping man, and bodies that don’t stay buried. The show is too convoluted for its own good, you need a scorecard to make sense of the wrap up episode, but the awkwardness of the conclusion and some logic issues aside, the build up is fantastic. I couldn’t stop listening. An addictive, fun, and at times spooky serial. Great serial, well performed. Introduces Elliott Lewis as Captain Bart Friday. B+/A-.

A COFFIN FOR THE LADY- Is a little more conventional mystery, as compared to the fantastic and ghoulish elements of THE CITY OF DEAD, but the 3 part A COFFIN FOR THE LADY is gripping, and entertaining in its own right. It’s the little things that Morse does so right, the weight he gives to people’s injuries, or the ‘you are there’ richness of his storytelling. I’ve seen and listened to so many shows about people getting tied up, but none has expressed it as the near crippling experience that Morse does in these few episodes.

A lot of times in entertainment, there is no weight to the perils. Someone is stabbed in one episode, and is climbing mountains in the next, not so with Morse, he’s ever aware, ever making you aware, of the strains of flesh, and the demands of nature, which gives his plots a gravity, and his characters a reality, they would otherwise lack. A great little serial. B+.

THE COBRA KING STRIKES- Returns to the ten episode format, and it’s a doozy. A new actor plays Captain Friday, David Ellis, but he does it effectively. Took me a couple episodes to get into his leaner, less gruff interpretation of Capt Friday, but his take quickly becomes perfect for this camaraderie rich storyline. And the sizable cast is fully realized and fleshed out, in this tale of a Cambodian odyssey to uncover the remnants of a once and perhaps future Asian empire. Captain Friday is onboard to put down any such uprising. While the Captain is the agent of suppression, there’s enough differing perspectives here to make the episode surprisingly rich, and surprisingly elaborate. This is the one that archive.org has butchered copies of, but it’s worth getting the full episode, as this one is every bit as engaging as THE CITY OF DEAD, and does it one better by having a great final episode. A recommended listen. A-.

Well that’s our review for this installment. Head over to RadioLovers and Archive to check these shows out for yourself. And tell them HT sent you!

Momentan hab ich mit meinem RL-Avi so viel zu tun, dass ich nicht mal mehr dazu komme, über ihre Aktivitäten zu bloggen. Doch jetzt habe ich mir einfach mal ein bisschen Zeit freigeschaufelt und schreibe ein bisschen über die letzten beiden Webmontage. Und zwar schön der Reihe nach… Darum zuerst Köln – der war schon am 2.3.

Jutta hatte an dem Tag eh in Köln zu tun, da passte das ganz gut. Sie hat sich auch schon etwas früher in der Location (Spielplatz) eingefunden um noch die eine oder andere Mail zu schreiben. War lustig zu sehen, wie die ersten Teilnehmer eingetrudelt sind und sich jeder an einen eigenen Tisch gesetzt hat… “Bitte jeder nur einen Tisch *g”. Na, dann wurde erst quer über die Tische kommuniziert und dann aber doch näher zusammen gerückt. Obwohl… eng war es nicht. Sogar ziemlich leer dieses Mal. Schienen doch einige Avis auf der Cebit gewesen zu sein.

Moritz Sauer erzählt was zu der CC Konferenz

Trotzdem war es wirklich gut – manchmal kommt es ja in kleineren Runden zu besseren Gesprächen. Die Vorträge waren auch interessant. Zuerst hat Moritz “mo.” Sauer die Cologne Commons Konferenz vorgestellt, die am 12. und 13. Juni in Köln stattfindet. Die Veranstaltung ist eine Konferenz und ein Festival rund um und mit freier Musik – d. h. Musik, die frei im Netz verfügbar ist und im Rahmen von Creative Commons Lizenzen genutzt werden kann. Weitere Infos und Links zu CC-Musik-Sammlungen (z. B. archive.org) gibt es auf Moritz’ Homepage. Klickt euch mal durch, das ist wirklich ein spannendes Thema – gerade wenn ihr Podcasts, Machinimas, Filme oder ähnliches vertonen oder selber mit einer CC Lizenz schützen versehen wollt. Ein paar Links hat er hier sogar extra noch zusammen gestellt. Wer mehr an Livemusik interessiert sollte mal bei Netaudio Cologne vorbei gucken oder sich mal auf die Düsseldorf SIM begeben – dort finden regelmäßig die Netlabelnights statt… muss ich auch  mal hingehen!

Als nächstes hat Georg Leciejewski noch etwas darüber erzählt, wie bei Salesking die Softwaretests durchgeführt werden. Sprecht ihn bitte selber an, wenn ihr weitere Infos braucht… ich habe als Technik-Dummy kein Wort verstanden *g. Alle anderen haben aber Aufmerksam zugehört – muss also spannend gewesen sein. Nach den Vorträgen wurde dann noch munter drauf los geplaudert. Herrlich und wieder mal viel zu schnell vorbei. Freue mich schon aufs nächste Mal. Und danke noch mal an Rene… der extra immer aus Koblenz angereist kommt, den Raum bucht und die Leute zusammen hält. Du machst das toll!

Kamerateam beim Webmontag Düsseldorf

Hm – jetzt mache ich mal einen großen SIM-Sprung – gestern (09.03.) fand nämlich schon wieder ein Webmontag statt – diesmal aber auf der NachbarSIM – in Düsseldorf. Es war super voll – einige Leute haben sogar keinen Sitzplatz gekriegt. Obwohl – ich muss sagen – stehen ist eh besser – dann lockert sich das Ganze auf. Natürlich gibt es immer wieder irgendwelche Stänkerer, die sich über den Qualm im Rauchclub beschweren… nicht war Patrick? *g

Die Vorträge waren auch interessant. Gestartet hat Dominic Kennedy. Er hat seine Bachelor Thesis mit dem Thema “Human Computer Interaction: Concept for a Tabletop Computer to support Small Group Design Meetings” vorgestellt. Die Ideen, die er dabei hatte, waren wirklich spannend und es sah toll aus. Wenn ich es richtig verstanden habe, kann sich jeder mit etwas technischem Geschick (also Jutta NICHT) seinen eigenen Touchscreen Computertisch basteln. Sowas wie dasMicrosoft Surface. Wenn ihr das also auch mal probieren wollt… Dominic ist in dem Fall euer Ansprechpartner.

Der zweite Vortrag kam von Carolin Mertens. Sie hatte ja das Projekt pendla.de bereits beim vorletzten Kölner Webmontag präsentiert – hier könnt ihr noch mal nachlesen. Inzwischen gibt es einen schönen kleinen Film zu dem Projekt (guckt ruhig mal auf der Homepage, er ist nett) – schön war, wie Carolin den Text nachgesprochen hat, weil für die Präsi die Boxen fehlten. Entertainment pur. Schön auch mal für Jutta jemanden zu treffen, der mindestens genauso wenig Ahnung von Technik und Programmiersprachen und Datenbanken und so hat. Aber Carolin hatte einen schlauen Zettel dabei, auf dem die technischen Komponenten standen und so alle anwesenden zufrieden gestellt wurden.

Voll war's in Düsseldorf

Zu guter letzt hat Tim Bruysten sein aktuelles Projekt vorgestellt – öhm Namen gab es glaube ich noch nicht. Es handelt sich um eine Möglichkeit, Wissen im Unternehmen schneller und effektiver zu finden und zugänglich zu machen. Technisch sicher total komplex aber hinterher einfach in der Bedienung bekommt der Mitarbeiter Informationen die er gerade braucht automatisch zugeliefert. Die Präsi war toll und Jutta hat die ganze Zeit nur gestaunt, mit was sich die Leute alles so beschäftigen. Auf so eine Idee muss man erst mal kommen. Hoffe sie hat auch bald mal eine… dann erspare ich mir das viele Arbeiten und kann mich mehr in SL aufhalten.

Danach wurde noch fleissig geplauder… dabei wollte ich gar nicht so lange on bleiben. Es ist aber dann wieder kurz vor 24 Uhr geworden. Themen wie das GamesCamp und “Fakeprofile auf Sexportalen” sind aber auch wirklich spannende Themen *g.

Ein paar weitere Fotos von den beiden Veranstaltungen findet ihr auf meinem Flickr-Account.